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That would be great Sean.I looked on ebay. May get a pan to play around with. And I guess a book will set me in the right direction.

Is there a type soil that I should look for? I live in a red clay area, and the local high school is called "Redland". I'm guessing that clay area soils are not good? I have a stream running through my property, but wanted know if it even has a chance.

And if all fails, the pan will make a good conversation item on the shelf. I can hear the stories now.... :shock:

Clay is really dense and your gold will sometimes sit on top. So get the dirt that sits on top of the clay. Gold will also get suspended in the clay so get the clay really wet and break it up. Any clay chunks in your pan will "snowball" over the gold in your pan and carry it off. Look for gravel beds in streams or rivers. Anyplace you find exposed bedrock, granite, or quartz, you will find gold.And I'm not trying to advertise for the GPAA or anything, but when I signed up for membership I got a gold pan, a how to DVD, the claims guide (it's the size of a phone book!), and a whole bunch of other stuff that will get you started. Plus it helps support amateur prospecting.

Sean Kelly

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Panning is allowed on U.S. Forest Service land In the State of Georgia.Go to your local U.S. Forest Service Office and get the Info.

If You can find the book, There was one printed around 1900 that gives all the Gold "belts" in the state of Georgia. It also has a number of mines that was in operation at that time.A lot of Copper was taken from the mine/s in Lincoln County Ga. (TWT'S) area.

Gold Is not the only thing you should be looking for. Lots of Minerals and gem stones out there.The Gold on the Ga. State Capitol dome in Atlanta came from Dalonaga. If my memory does me justice, in 1954. Some one can correct me if I am wrong.Just trying to help.doak :)

ok i havent checked up on this thread in a while. mike and i found about $10 worth last summer but an old friend showed me an abandoned claim he had years ago on the maps so i might do a little better this summer. bjorn look for places in your stream where gravel builds up, you want to dig towards bedrock on the downstream end and see if any has acumulated therelike gene told me about the claim i'm looking for this spring his partners were all eccited about the gold till they found out how much work the mining is

That would be great Sean.I looked on ebay. May get a pan to play around with. And I guess a book will set me in the right direction.

Is there a type soil that I should look for? I live in a red clay area, and the local high school is called "Redland". I'm guessing that clay area soils are not good? I have a stream running through my property, but wanted know if it even has a chance.

And if all fails, the pan will make a good conversation item on the shelf. I can hear the stories now.... :shock:

Thank you

look at this site and it will be posted "READING RIVERS AND STREAMS" ON THE RIGHT SIDE, maybe this will help you some.

Great finds TWT. Thanks. Our new commander is into metal detecting so I think Ill hook up with him and head to the mountains for a day this summer and see what we can find. I think he wants to hit all the old home steads here in the plains, the Old Santa Fe Trail. The trail runs right through the outside of our town and there are numerous home steads, dug outs, and Forts we can go around.

We actually have a gold mine on our property which has not been worked since the thirties as I understand it. My bee yard is just down the mountain from it.

With the price of gold going so high I thought about having some of the quartz looked at for gold content. I would be afraid to go into the mine though as it is not safe and has alot of water in it. We had joked about making it into a wine cellar since a lot of really good wine is grown and produced nearby.

The mine is also protected by a branch of poison oak as big around as my arm. I may look at the quartz rock on other parts of the protery more though. I would not want to mess up the property by mining.

We have done gold panning with the kids in the local river. It is very fun and it does not produce much gold even though it is a gold rich area California foothills.

with the price the way it is, you'd only have to find a couple of good chunks and you'd be set! might be worth wandering around with a pickax a bit.

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